On Sep 26, 10:52 am, Stephan Bomholt
<StephanBomh...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

Hallo Stephan

according to this KB article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313282
ASP cookies are encoded in UrlEncode format, so maybe the problem is
that you would need to decode the data using UrlDecode in ASP.NET? Try
this

Hello Stephan,

Mads Kristensen wrote about this recently. see there http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/netSlave/~3/154202987/post.aspx

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SB> Hi,
SB>
SB> i have a little problem with cookie encoding. Our ASP.Net web-app
SB> uses UTF-8/Unicode Encoding as default. Now we write an cookie with
SB> for example the username in it. In Germany names can contain umlauts
SB> like äöüß...
SB>
SB> Another web-app, written in ASP from another developer, read out the
SB> cookie and have a problem with umlauts. They uses the ISO-8859-1
SB> encoding, so there are cryptic signs instead of the umlauts.
SB>
SB> How can i save the username in the cookie with another encoding? I
SB> have tried things like  Encoding.Convert(unicode,iso, encodedBytes)
SB> but it doesn´t work.
SB>
SB> Thanks for any hint....
SB>
SB> Stephan
SB>